{"id":289003,"date":"2026-07-07T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/289003\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:20:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-man-facing-hate-crime-charges-after-assaulting-a-child-in-a-manhattan-playgorund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/289003\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Man Facing Hate Crime Charges After Assaulting A Child In A Manhattan Playgorund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 37-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested for a hate crime and assault of a 12-year-old boy inside Baruch Playground. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The attack happened inside the playground at 6 p.m. on April 29.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_2026-07-07_065757.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-07-07 065757.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the man approached the 12-year-old boy and engaged in an argument with the boy. The man made anti LGBTQIA+ remarks towards the boy before striking him with a belt. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 12-year-old suffered minor injuries and is expected to be OK. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Kevin Maxell, 37, is now facing a slew of charges including hate crime, assault, acting in a manner injurious to a child and menacing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 37-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested for a hate crime and assault of a 12-year-old boy inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-289003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}